"Who could have guessed that six years down the road Chin would be jumping out of airplanes despite his claimed injuries," said Dennis Laccavole, the lawyer for the Jeep's driver, Matthew Greninger, of New Jersey.

"Justice was done in this case," Laccavole said.

On July 20, 2006, Chin was one of six students attending a summer session at Fairfield University who decided they needed to go to the campus health center to check out whether they were suffering from pink eye, according to testimony in the lawsuit. So they all piled into Greninger's open top Jeep.

They had gone just a short distance when Chin decided to jump off the moving vehicle.

He did and ended up falling and hitting his head in the roadway. He was taken to St. Vincent's Medical center where he was treated for a fractured skull.

Chin later joined the army and after successfully passing airborne and ranger school was assigned to a ranger unit.

But despite that, he testified he still has problems with taste and smell and short-term memory loss that he blames on his fall from the Jeep.

"More probably than not, the proximate cause of the plaintiff's injuries was a result of his attempt to jump off the rear of a vehicle moving forward and not because of any erratic driving by the defendant operator," the judge ruled.